Tuesday, 30 July 2013

These sites and IPs are associated with this gang, and are either currently in use or they have been in use recently. The list has individual IPs and web hosts first, followed by a plain list of recommended items to block.

Wednesday, 12 June 2013

This is a refresh of this list of domains and IPs controlled by what I call the "Amerika" gang, and it follows on from this BBB spam run earlier. Note that IPs included in this list show recent malicious activity, but it could be that they have now been fixed. I also noticed that a couple of the domains may have been sinkholed, but it will do you no harm to block them anyway.

Wednesday, 29 May 2013

These domains and IP addresses are connected to this malware spam run and belong to a group I call the "Amerika" gang (because they tend to use fake US addresses for their WHOIS details but really seem to be Russian).

It's quite a long set of lists: first there is a list of malware domains, then a list of malicious IPs and their web hosts, followed by a plain recommended blocklist list of IPs for copy-and-pasting, finally a list of IPs that are advertised as nameservers within this group for research purposes only.

You might notice something odd going on at the University of Illinois in the 128.174.240.0/24 range. Hmm..

In the version I have the link doesn't work, but I believe that it goes to [donotclick]balckanweb.com/news/unpleasant-near_finally-events.php (report here) hosted or having nameservers on the following IPs:
5.231.24.162 (GHOSTnet, Germany)
71.107.107.11 (Verizon, US)
108.5.125.134 (Verizon, US)
198.50.169.2 (OVH, Canada)
198.61.147.58 (Matt Martin Real Estate Management / Rackspace, US)
209.59.223.119 (Endurance International Group, US)

The domains and IPs indicate that this is part of the "Amerika" spam run.

Another BBB spam run today, although this time not an RU:8080 spam we saw earlier but an "Amerika" spam run instead. Interestingly, both mis-spell "Beareau" which indicates they are using the same software, even if they are different gangs. The link in the email leads to malware on freedblacks.net.

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